Beyond 2020: converging crises demand integrated responses

Diffuse Baryonic Matter beyond 2020

The hot, diffuse gas that fills the largest overdense structures in the Universe — clusters of galaxies and a web of giant filaments connecting them — provides us with tools to address a wide array of fundamental astrophysical and cosmological questions via observations in the X-ray band. Clusters are sensitive cosmological probes. To utilize their full potential for precision cosmology in the ...

US Newsprint Demand Forecasts to 2020

The paper provides projections for US newsprint demand up to 2020. First, various specifications of the standard model used in forest product demand literature, which we call the classical model, were estimated using annual data from 1971–2000. The results indicated that structural change in the newsprint consumption pattern took place at the end of the 1980s. The classical model fails to expla...

Demographic Responses to Economic and Environmental Crises

In this paper mortality crises in a rural area in southern Sweden are analysed by using a new approach. We start off with a combined life-event and time-series analysis approach in which the influences of food prices, agricultural production and air temperature on mortality by age, sex and socio-economic status is analyzed, much in line with our previous work. Special attention is given to year...

The Future of Environmental Public Health Tracking: 2020 and Beyond.

HIV in Maternal and Child Heath: Concurrent Crises Demand Cooperation

In June, PLoS Medicine published a series of articles on interventions to tackle the burden of maternal, neonatal, and child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa and how to implement those interventions most effectively [1–6]. Reducing child mortality and improving maternal health are two of eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agreed to by 191 UN member states. The lack of progress on these go...